Formation of nanocolloidal metacinnabar in mercury-DOM-sulfide systems

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 9180-9187

  Gerbig, Chase A ^a   Kim, Christopher S ^b   Stegemeier, John P ^b   Ryan, Joseph N ^a   Aiken, George R ^c  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND DISTANCE; COORDINATION NUMBER; CRYSTALLINE ORDER; DIRECT DETERMINATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; EXAFS; EXTENDED X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURES; INTER-ATOMIC DISTANCES; MERCURY ADSORPTION; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURY SPECIATIONS; NANO-METER SCALE; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SOLID-PHASE EXTRACTION; STRONG BINDING; SULFUR ATOMS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ADSORPTION; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BINDING SITES; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BOND LENGTH; EXTRACTION; RESINS; SULFUR;

MERCURY (METAL);

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; MERCURY; MERCURY SULFIDE; METACINNABAR; RESIN; SULFIDE; SULFUR; THIOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADSORPTION; COLLOID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRYSTALLINITY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; LIGAND; MERCURY (ELEMENT); RESIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SPECTROSCOPY; SULFIDE; X-RAY;

ADSORPTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ATOM; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMICAL BOND; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COLLOID; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NANOANALYSIS; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

COLLOIDS; MERCURY; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARTICLE SIZE; SULFIDES; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 80055076774     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es201837h     Document Type: Article

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